A few days ago, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other nine ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Collaboration in the Prosecution of Public Interest Litigation and Coordinating the Fight against Pollution in Accordance with the Law", Strengthening Collaboration and Cooperation in Prosecuting Public Interest Litigation, and Working Together to Fight Pollution Prevention and Control Jointly promote the construction of ecological civilization to form a collaborative opinion.

In the 11 months before 2018, the national procuratorate handled 48,000 public interest litigation cases in the field of ecological environment and resource protection, accounting for 54.56% of all public prosecution cases. However, the procuratorial organs still have some problems in the judicial handling of cases. For example, when dealing with eco-environmental cases, there are still practical problems such as determining jurisdiction, difficulty in investigation and evidence collection, difficulty in judicial appraisal, and difficulty in applying the law. In particular, the number of judicial appraisal institutions with low ecological environment damage, high cost, and long cycle have become the constraints of the procuratorate. A bottleneck in environmental pollution cases.

The "Opinions" require the administrative law enforcement agencies to discover clues of public interest litigation cases suspected of destroying the ecological environment and natural resources, and should promptly transfer them to the procuratorate for handling. For clues of major sensitive cases, the procuratorial organ shall promptly report the situation to the higher authorities of the supervised administrative law enforcement agencies, and the administrative law enforcement agencies shall actively cooperate with the investigation to collect evidence. In terms of forensic appraisal, the "Opinions" proposes to explore the establishment of a judicial appraisal management and use convergence mechanism for ecological environmental damage in prosecutorial public interest litigation.